Journal-box



Patente-d Oct. 4 |89 l c. B. Nounou. 8

JOURNAL BOX.

(Application led May 7, 1897.)

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CLAUDIUS B. MOULTON, OF SOMERVILLE, MASSACHUSETTS.

JOURNAL-,BOX-

SPECIFICATION forrlning part of Letters Patent No. 611,642, dated October 4, 1898. Application niet May 7, 1897. serial No. 635,504. tnt model.)

T0 all whom, it may concern,.-

Beit known that I, CLAUDIUs B. MoULroN, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Somerville, in the county of Middlesex and State of Massachusetts, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Journal- Boxes, of which the following, taken in connection with the accompanying drawings, is a specication.

My invention relates to certain improvements in journal-boxes for railroad-cars, the object being to lubricate the journals in a more efficient manner than has hitherto been done'and also in the economy of oil by returning the superfluous oil to the reservoir, thus preventing waste of oil by its escaping and dripping at the ends of the journals.

The invention consists in carrying the oil to lubricate the journals from an oil-reservoir by means of wicks in an outward drain in the babbitt to conduct superfluous oil back to the wick-openings andin an inward drain at each end, whereby any oil that may work out on the journal will be caught and returned to the reservoir through a suitable opening.

Referring to the accompanying drawings, Figure` 1 represents a longitudinal Vertical section of a frame embodying my invention capable of being inserted into a journal-box of ordinary construction. Fig. 2 is a central transverse section; Fig. 3, a plan or top View, and Fig. 4 an end view of same.

A represents the body of a frame supported by legs a ce, that rest upon the lower portion of the ordinary journal-box. The upper portion of the frame A is formed on a curve, according to the diameter of the journal, and is formed with a rib a near each end, the space between said ribs being lined with Babbitt metal B, that fits against the journal.

The bodyA is formed with a long opening C at each end, through which Wicks D pass,

that extend down into an oil-reservoirE. The upper portion of the wicks 1 lie in recesses b b, formed in the Babbitt metal B, so that said wicks will lie flush With said babbitt, one ot' said wicks being turned in one direction and the -other in the opposite direction, as will be seen in Fig. 8. In the surface of the babbitt are formed gutters b b', by which any superiiuous oil from the central portion ot' the journal will be returned to the tank or reser- Voir E through the Wick-openings C.

. The body A is formed at each end with an inward drain A', by which any oil that may work out on the journal will be arrested and conducted through the openings C back to the reservoir E.

It will be seen that by the above construction the frame A can be applied to any journal-box now in use and the journal lubricated by the oil drawn up by the wicks, and any superiiuous oil will be returned to the reservoir,all waste of oil being thus prevented.

In a journal-box a frame supported by legs an oil-reservoir undersarne the upper central inner surface of the `frame being babbitted to iit against theA journal, wicks passing through openings in frame and babbitt, the'upper end of said wicks lying in recesses formed in the babbitt, there being gutters in the babbitt connecting with the Wick-openin gs and drains at the ends of the vframe to conduct any superfluous oil back to the oil-reservoir substantially as set forth.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification, in the presence of two subscribing witnesses, on this 26th day of February, A. D. 1897.

CLAUDIUS B. MOULTON.

Witnesses:

CHAs. STEERE, EDWIN PLANTA-- 

